After the ban, Jack Dorsey said on Twitter that they will donate “all projected earnings ($1.9mm) to support external research into the use of Twitter in elections, including use of malicious automation and misinformation.”

Twitter justifies this decision “based on the retrospective work Twitter has been doing around the 2016 U.S. election and the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government.”